Scientific Advisor, RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS)

Main: Director Emeritus, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University

Makoto Kobayashi

D.Sci.

Research Fields: Theoretical Particle Physics
Term and History: 2016/12/01 - 2018/03/31 Scientific Advisor (Main: Professor Emeritus, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)); 2018/04/01 - 2020/03/31 Scientific Advisor (Main: Director, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University); 2020/04/01 - Scientific Advisor (Main: Director Emeritus, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University)

Message

Mathematical approaches have the potential to reveal new horizons of basic science that go beyond the framework of conventional research disciplines. I hope iTHEMS will become a prominent and fruitful research hub for mathematical studies.

Brief Resume

1967	Nagoya University, BS Physics
1972	Nagoya University, D.Sci. Physics
1972	Kyoto University, Assistant
1979	KEK, Assistant Professor
1985	KEK, Professor
2003	KEK IPNS, Director
2004	KEK, Executive Director
2007	JSPS, Executive Director
2008	KEK, Honorary Professor Emeritus (to the present)
2009	JSPS Research Center for Science Systems, Director
2018	Director, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University
2020	Director Emeritus, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University

Awards and Honors

1979	Nishina Memorial Prize
1985	J.J.Sakurai Prize
1985	Japan Academy Prize
1995	Asahi Prize
1995	Chunichi Prize
2001	Person of Cultural Merit
2007	EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize
2008	Order of Culture
2008	Nobel Prize for Physics
2010	Elected to the Japan Academy